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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout
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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (22160)5/30/2010 5:18:01 PM
From: yard_man   of 50474
 
On balance -- re 3rd commandment -- disrespecting God's name as in a curse or as in invoking His Name to justify evil or mischief -- both of these are bad and both have been going on since He made His Name known.

I understand what the writer was trying to say. Christian-zionism dishonors God -- I am not sure that I would lump it under the 3rd commandment. But the main way c-z dishonors God -- Hagee and others who preach this stuff -- is that they act as though there are different arrangements for different people as to how they might be saved.

This puts down Jesus Christ as it says that His sacrifice was somehow not necessary for a particular class of people. This is serious falsehood. You are also correct that christian-zionism as a movement is very young and has been used to snow and manipulate the ignorant into all kinds of evil deeds, but many believing people in this country have been misled in ignorance. What's to be done -- other than tell the truth? Give the history of the movement and show it for what it is?

The 3rd commandment is something all real Christians need to take seriously -- why? Because God takes it seriously -- His Name is important. If we can't do something in His Name -- perhaps we shouldn't be doing it at all??
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